Ugly Betty 1.2.4.08

Last week left off with a cliffhanger- actually a few!

This week, the episode starts with Betty sitting in Hilda's beauty chair getting her hair done- she's letting Hilda practice on her before she gets real customers. Betty is getting ready to go see Henry's band- The IRS (Internal Rhythm Service).

Christina is staying in Wilhelmina's house for the pregnancy- or at least until they know if the embryo implant was successful.

Betty sees the show is tanking, and suggests Henry sing instead of the absolutely tone deaf singer- but Henry doesn't want to. Daniel shows up to support Betty and Henry- and suddenly (randomly) Gabrielle Union walks up to Daniel and gets him to dance (she's on this show?). Yup, she's on the show- her name is Rene and she picks up Daniel by asking him to dance to make her boyfriend jealous- but when her 'bf' starts kissing another guy, the gig is up. She was lying to just hit on him.

Amanda and Marc are being, well, Amanda and Marc and talking about how Gene Simmons is her dad- Marc suggests she write a song, record it and post it on YouTube for Gene Simmons to see. Betty gets Daniel to let her interview Phillip Roth and write an article for the magazine, and then the scene flashes to Daniel and Rene kissing in his apartment- and as they are kissing in the dark, Daniel's mother speaks up- she is on the bed waiting for Daniel... Rene isn't fazed, but she leaves and says she'll be in touch.

Meanwhile, Betty is excited to get her big article written. Turns out it wasn't the guy she thought it was (Phillip Roth) instead it's Phil Roth... but she perks up and introduces herself to him. His new book is called "Tap That- How to Score With Hot Bitches". ASS- Approach, Subdue, Score. EK- Esteem Killer. These are terms the slimy Phil starts throwing at Betty about how to pick up chicks! She stumbles on trying to interview him professionally, but he's so crude. Amanda walks in and he demonstrates by using the 'EK' (of course it wokrs) and Betty wraps up FAST, but not before he autographs a copy of his book for her.

Daniel's mom has no one to talk to so she starts bugging Daniel. And she's cleaning his apartment- found the dirty mags... Daniel asks Betty to find something for his mom to do... a cruise maybe.

Betty gives Daniel an article about Hilda's new business because she didn't want to write about Phil Roth. Daniel fights back and tells Betty she is 'literally judging a book by its cover' (the woman has an apple in her mouth and is on a platter). Daniel says she doesn't have to do the article, because Phil called anyway and asked for a different writer because he thought Betty was too closed minded- which makes her determined to read the book and actually do to article.

Cut to Daniel and Rene making out in her apartment... after he sees her figure in the shower and goes to join her- only to find WILHELMINA!!! Rene is her sister!!! She didn't tell Daniel because he was afraid it wold scare her off, and he says she was right and leaves. Wilhelmina confronts her and tells her off for bringing Daniel to her apartment when she gave her a place to stay. They argue about it, so you know there will be trouble... turned out Christina was sitting in the kitchen and heard it all.

When Daniel talks to Betty about it, he admits he really liked her... but she's Wilhelmina's sister...

Amanda and Henry figure out that they need each other- he is looking for a lead singer and she is looking for a and (its really funny how the scene plays out actually).

Henry and Betty are reading 'Tap That' and she keeps harrumphing about how awful the guy is... Henry is intrigued and they decide to try his methods and see if they work- except Betty wants to ask Geo to do it (because he's a dog) even though Henry offered...

And when Betty and Geo are sitting in the bar discussing the girl Geo is going to try it on- they see her give her number to another guy- HENRY! Showdown between Henry and Geo people! They make a bet- whoever gets the most phone numbers wins. Henry starts out really sweet with a girl "You have an amazing face" and she starts to walk away and he goes on, "Your doctor did an amazing job!" Ouch
But it totally works- as does Geo's line about some girls slutty outfit...
They continue trading horrendous barbs with the girls in the club, getting phone numbers, and giving them to Betty to hold.

Daniel and Alexis argue between each other about who their mom should stay with, but Claire hears them and huffs away- so Alexis loses at Rock,paper,scissors and goes to talk to their mom.

Rene shows up at Daniels office and tells him she knew who he was and walked up to him at first to make Wilhelmina mad, but then actually liked him. Daniel holds out and says they should forget it ever happened (good move, she's trouble!)

And the phone numbers are in- Henry wins! (Geo takes all the numbers though...) Betty is testy- mostly because Henry proved the stuff in Phil's book worked. Hilda tells Betty its not a bad book, it gives guys confidence to talk to girls...

Daniel shows up randomly at Betty's house to talk about Rene. Betty tells him if he can't stop thinking about her, maybe he should go for her, give Rene a chance.

Wilhelmina walks into the kitchen the next morning and sees Daniel poking through the fridge- and he tells her all the places he and Rene had sex in Wilhelmina's apartment. She warns him that he'll regret it, because of Rene, that he should be careful.

Amanda and Marc are working on her song for Gene Simmons- so far she has "Gene Simmons, fire breather, blood spitter, I am your little gi-ir-l!"
But they aren't feeling it. They freestyle a little and it's SO FUNNY!

Claire decides to start a magazine called 'Hot Flash' for all the women like her who don't know what to do with themselves anymore...

Betty meets with Phil Roth again and admits (begrudgingly) that it works on some girls... turns out he never told Daniel that he felt Betty was closed minded- Daniel made it up to get her to writ the article.

The elevator opens and Daniel is immediately confronted by an upset Betty. He explains that he did it to get her to step outside of her comfort zone and write about things she doesn't always know about or feel comfortable with. He also tells her that her article is great, and that he really liked it, but then he tells her it won't get published because Alexis pulled the story. Poor Betty.

Henry explains to Betty that he hates when Geo is around because it makes him jealous, not that he doesn't trust her, he doesn't trust Geo though. She tells him she won't see Geo anymore.... no biggie.

Amanda is getting ready to sing with Henry's band... she actually starts with "It's Mandy bitch!!!" (She pulled a Britney!) She goes into an awesome song- and Marc is recording it- Marc asks the guy in front of him to move and the guy turns around- AND ITS GENE SIMMONS!!! Marc tries to tell her, but she just dances more and more- and ends with Gene's famous tongue/fingers thing. After the song, Gene talks to Amanda and they hug it out (awww)... then they go to get a drink and talk it out.

Henry freaks a little because Amanda left and the band has no singer- now who is going to sing? Betty makes Henry go up to cover for Amanda- and he says he's too scared- but does it with Betty... they sing "It Takes Two to Make the Thing Go Right..." a pretty bad cover but the bar gets hopping!

Rene passes Wilhelmina on her way out to meet Daniel and tells her she better tell Daniel the truth (about what???)if she really wants it to work out... and of course Christina overhears...

That's all folks- see ya' next week!